Sentence Examples with the word pay for

March 17, 2018All Dictionary

I have no doubt that some of you who read this book are unable to pay for all the dinners which you have actually eaten, or for the coats and shoes which are fast wearing or are already worn out, and have come to this page to spend borrowed or stolen time, robbing your creditors of an hour.

I know it still galls you that he was willing to help pay for your college education, but not Katie's.

On the 10th of July 1359 Wykeham was made chief keeper and surveyor, not only of Windsor, but of the castles of Dover, Hadley and Leeds (Kent), and of the manors of Foliejohn, Eton, Guildford, Kennington, Sheen (now Richmond), Eltham and Langly and their parks, with power to repair them and to pay for workmen and materials.

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Financially, Afghanistan has never, since it first became a kingdom, been able to pay for its own government, public works Finance.

Kids think their parents should work two jobs to pay for their college education.

Royal officials must pay for the corn and provisions which they take on behalf of the king.

Upon that prince throwing himself into the hands of the Mahrattas, the place was resumed by the British in 1771 and again transferred to the nawab of Oudh, by whom it was finally ceded together with the district to the British in 1801, in commutation of the subsidy which the wazir had agreed to pay for British protection.

He declared that if he were in Great Britain he would be a free trader, but that free trade or protection must be applied according to the necessities of a country, and that which protection necessarily involved taxation it was the price a young and vigorous nation must pay for its development.

These aggregated funds, needed to supply the immense and fertile valley of the Mississippi, and the nnnuities of the treasury destined to pay for the shares, were non-transferable.

He is said to have remarked with an oath after Jena that he would make the Spanish Bourbons pay for their recent bellicose proclamation.